The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, indicated that collaborators presume that Nicolás Maduro will resign due to the pressure exerted by the attacks on boats loaded with alleged drugs in the Caribbean and the change to land operations.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, wants to continue destroying ships supposedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean until Nicolás Maduro “gives up,” said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in an interview published this Tuesday.
Since September, a strong US military deployment has destroyed around twenty boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, near Venezuela and Colombia, extrajudicially killing more than 80 people whom Washington describes as “narcoterrorists.”
«(Trump) He wants to continue blowing up ships until Maduro gives up. And people much smarter than me in that regard say they will do it,” Wiles said in a interview with Vanity Fair.
According to the magazine, the statements by Trump’s right-hand man appear to “contradict the government’s official position that blowing up ships is an issue of drug interdiction, not the pursuit of regime change” in Venezuela.
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Donald Trump’s administration accuses Maduro of leading the Cartel of the Suns, an organization dedicated to drug trafficking, something that Caracas strongly denies, and offers a reward of up to $50 million for information leading to the capture of the Chavista leader.
Trump has promised that “soon” attacks against drug trafficking within Venezuelan territory will begin, while Maduro has called to unite against US threats and enlist in citizen militias.
Despite the tension, Trump and Maduro held a telephone conversation in November of which no details have emerged. The deportation flights for Venezuelan migrants, which began in January of this year after negotiation, continued until last week, when the US decided to end them.
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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